Margaret Beaufort Association Newsletter – December 2021
December 2021 Newsletter To read the newsletter, please click here.
Hymn Sheet for Mass remembering deceased Friends and Benefactors 11th Nov 6pm
MBIT Mass remembering deceased Friends and Benefactors St Laurence’s RC Church Cambridge 11th Nov 2021 6pm. Download sheet here Opening Hymn Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heav’n, to earth come down, fix in us thy humble dwelling, all thy faithful mercies crown. Jesus, thou art all compassion, pure, unbounded love thou art. Visit us with thy salvation; enter ev'ry trembling heart. Finish, then, thy new creation; true and spotless let us be. Let us see thy great salvation perfectly restored in thee. Changed from glory into glory, till in heav’n we take our place, till we cast [...]
A Baptismal Font for Wales (II) Saint Winefride now and always by MBIT Student Evelyn Nicholson
St Winefred or Gwenfrewi Sant, in her iconography is seen as Abbess of Gwytherin and known as a gentle and kind religious leader for fifteen years. She wears the Crown of redemption, her crozier and a nun’s habit, as so she is remembered in the Roman Martyrology (Sancta Wenefreda). In her statue at the shrine and above in the Guild window at Shrewsbury Abbey Church, she also carries her martyrs’ palm. It was because of the translation of her remains from her Abbey in Gwytherin to the Benedictine Abbey of Shrewsbury and the establishment of her Guild there, that [...]
Requiem Mass for Tonie Askin – Order of Service – Thursday, 9 September at 6PM
Requiem Mass for Antoinette (Tonie) Askin Order of Service A Requiem Mass for Antoinette (Tonie) Askin is being celebrated on 9th September 6.00pm St Laurence’s RC Church, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 1XB. The Mass will be livestreamed via Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIqxSZ9C9A3l-E4ujH2XVOA for those unable to join us in person. For those joining via the livestream, the Order of Service (with hymns) can be downloaded here: Order of Service for Memorial Mass for Tonie Askin
Research project seeks participants to explore the experiences of transgender, non-binary or gender queer young people educated in Catholic schools
Trans led academic research for trans young people Are you a young adult who has experienced gender identity challenges or changes while attending a Catholic school in the UK, or are an educator of these young people? If so, please get in touch! Our new research team is seeking participants for a project exploring the experiences of transgender, non-binary or gender queer young people who were educated in Catholic schools. Volunteers will be asked to take part in a confidential one-to-one interview with one of our researchers. We are looking for: Transgender, non-binary or gender queer adults between 18 [...]
MBIT Higher Education Brochure 2021 2022
Higher Education Brochure 2021 2022 Please browse through our postgraduate degree and research programmes for the coming academic year. For more information, refer to the website or email apply@mbit.cam.ac.uk. Click below to download the brochure in pdf format. Higher education MBIT Brochure 2021-2022 v1
MBIT Short Courses and Study Days Brochure 2021 2022
Short Courses and Study Day Brochure 2021 2022 Please browse through our offerings for the coming academic year. Study days and short courses will be released on a termly basis, about three months before the start of the term. You will be able to register for events via MBIT's Eventbrite page. Click below to download the brochure in pdf format. Short courses of MBIT Brochure 2022xs (1)
A Baptismal Font for Wales (I) Saint Winefride Now and Always by Evelyn Nicholson
Father Michael Fuller, a scholar of the Pontifical University of St Mary of the Lake, USA, [1] quotes D.W. Robertson suggests the Virgin Martyrs’ Vitae be read as ‘historical criticism’-as ‘a kind of literary analysis seeking to reconstruct the intellectual attitudes and the cultural ideals of a period to reach a fuller understanding of its literature.’[2] He believed medieval literature was ‘saturated with Christian symbols and theology’ now a lost concept for many. Felice Lifshitz has argued that the idea of hagiography as a specific genre is an idealistic construct, a tool that had no function in the ninth to eleventh [...]
St Clare of Assisi by MBIT alumna, Jackie Tevlin
Jackie Tevlin, a MBIT alumna has kindly agreed to post her poem "St Clare of Assisi". Thank you Jackie! We welcome other alumnae to submit poems, artwork or stories. St Clare of Assisi Blessed soul of grace, Attentive to the preacher's word, A palm you waved in joy - Receiving the light of faith, Whilst waiting on His command. Trapped in the pain of glass , Looking out but never in, With wealth of ermine - Kept in style, kept in frustration. Unable to begin responding to God's plan, whilst tucked up safe within A fortress walls. Let me loose, let me cast off [...]